Sinead O'Connor has gone missing, and police have reason to believe she's at risk of suicide.

The singer went out on a bicycle ride Sunday around 1 PM in the Chicago suburb of Wilmette, and has not been seen since. Someone called cops to report she hadn't returned from the bike ride ... and officers are now searching for her.

According to an alert sent out by cops ... O'Connor is being classified as "missing suicidal." She was last seen on a Raleigh motorized bicycle with a pink basket. She's not exactly in typical cycling gear -- black parka, black leather pants and a sweatshirt with "Ireland" on the back.She got medical treatment back in November after leaving an angry suicidal note for her family.

NothingFails wrote:Watching this clip still makes me angry and I think this was the moment that really triggered her illness, because she was always different in interviews after 1992 than before.

You would think Bob Dylan fans of all people would be openminded and understanding of Sinead's actions on SNL a few weeks prior, as opposed to being uptight and downright bullying to her.

wtf was that? Explain.

She had gone on SNL about 2 weeks prior to that performance and had a controversial career-ending performance where she sang a protest song (Bob Marley's War) and ended the performance ripping a picture of Pope John Paul II as a protest for the Vatican ignoring child sex abuse in Ireland. It ignited a media firestorm and this was Sinead's first public appearance after that performance, at a Bob Dylan tribute concert. The audience booed her in anger for her SNL appearance and she ended up not performing the Dylan song she had intended but instead did the same song she performed on SNL to counter the boos of the crowd.

Awww, the days when controversy was done over something bigger than "furthering your brand"

I hope it isn't too late and she's still found alive and gets the help she is in dire need of.

She has been found safe. I hope she gets the help she is in dire need of. She needs to be surrounded by better people who want to take care of her because with her recent public bouts of illness, she needs to be around people who care for her well-being

This was the performance in question, let's just say it was the 1990s "Nipplegate". The original performance has never been rebroadcast in reruns. It ended Sinead's career in America overnight.

The irony being that a few years later when church sex scandals began rocking America, people began to understand what she was doing, but in 1992 the US was unaware and just saw this as a shock antic and turned their back on Sinead right afterwards

Airwrecka wrote:It's not really funny tbh, army. It's horrible having unstable mental health and uncontrolled episodes or breakdowns, yet alone having them play out for the whole world to see.

I'm glad she's safe.

Don't come for me with these lazy ''it's not funny'' phrases.

I did not laugh about her having mental health issues, I laughed about people writing ''I really worry about her, she is not right in the head.'' Lol. I admire her for being the way she was in the past. But her reaching out to modern half-naked mainstream stars in the last years was hilarious